A senior State Department official revealed that talks in Saudi Arabia with Secretary of State Antony Blinken focused on a larger plan: Saudi recognition of Israel in exchange for credible progress on a Palestinian state.
However, Israel’s current government opposes Palestinian statehood, a non-negotiable condition for Saudi normalization.
The official says only a few issues remain in the US-Saudi component, believed to include US defense guarantees and aid for a Saudi civilian nuclear program.
The plan faces challenges, as Netanyahu reportedly rejected a similar proposal in January.
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This was going to happen for free under Trump’s Abraham Accords. Now we have to give away half our homeland to some imaginary nation – a bloodthirsty death cult of evil people? No thanks Brandon.
Absurd.Saudi recognition isn’t worth putting another terrorist state into Israel.Jordan is the Palestinian state .Any Arab who doesn’t want to live in peace with Jews should be funded by the UN to move to Jordan.
The Biden-Blinken administration is destroying peace with its own hands